The nature and distribution of errors in sound localization by human listeners

Hearing Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 179-196

  Carlile, Simon ^a   Leong, Philip ^b   Hyams, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binaural processing; Pinna; Sound localization; Spectral cue

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031457735     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(97)00161-5     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Butler, R.A., 1986. The bandwidth effect on monaural and binaural localization. Hear. Res. 21, 67-73.
2. Butler, R.A., Belendiuk, K., 1977. Spectral cues utilized in the localization of sound in the median sagittal plane. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61, 1264-1269.
3. Butler, R.L., Humanski, R.A., 1992. Localization of sound in the vertical plane with and without high-frequency spectral cues. Percept. Psychophys. 51, 182-186.
4. Butler, R.A., Humanski, R.A., Musicant, A.D., 1990. Binaural and monaural localization of sound in two-dimensional space. Perception 19, 241-256.
5. Carlile, S., 1996a. Auditory space. In: Carlile, S. (Ed.) Virtual Auditory Space: Generation and Applications. Landes, Austin, TX, Ch. 1.
6. Carlile, S., 1996b. The physical and psychophysical basis of sound localization. In: Carlile, S. (Ed.) Virtual Auditory Space: Generation and Applications. Landes, Austin, TX, Ch. 2.
7. Carlile, S. (Ed.), 1996c. Virtual Auditory Space: Generation and Applications. Landis, Austin, TX.
8. Carlile, S., King, A.J., 1994. The integration of monaural and binaural cues in the generation of a neural representation of auditory space. Proc. Aust. Neurosci. Soc. 5, 31.
9. Carlile, S., Pralong, D., 1994. The location-dependent nature of perceptually salient features of the human head-related transfer function. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 3445-3459.
10. Chung, W., Carlile, S., Leong, P., 1996. A computational model for auditory localization. Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Canberra, pp. 150-154.
11. Dye, R.H., Yost, W.A., Stellmack, M.A., Sheft, S., 1994. Stimulus classification procedure for assessing the extent to which binaural processing is spectrally analytic or synthetic. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 2720-2730.
12. Erulkar, S.D., 1972. Comparative aspects of spatial localization of sound. Physiol. Rev. 52, 238-360.
13. Fisher, N.I., Lewis, T., Embleton, B.J.J., 1987. Statistical Analysis of Spherical Data. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
14. Gilkey, R.H., Anderson, T.R., 1995. The accuracy of absolute localization judgements for speech stimuli. J. Vestib. Res. 5, 487-491.
15. Gilkey, R.H., Good, M.D., Ericson, M.A., Brinkman, J., Stewart, J.M., 1995. A pointing technique for rapidly collecting localization responses in auditory research. Behav. Res. Methods Instruments Comput. 27, 1-11.
16. Good, M.D., Gilkey, R.H., 1996. Sound localization in noise: The effect of signal-to-noise ratio. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 1108-1117.
17. Rafter, E.R., Dye, R.H., Nuetzel, J.M., Aronow, H., 1977. Difference thresholds for interaural intensity. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61, 829-834.
18. Hammershoi, D., Sandvad, J., 1994. Binaural Auralization. Simulating Free Field Conditions by Headphones. Audio Engineering Society, Amsterdam, pp. 1-19.
19. Hartmann, W.M., 1983. Localization of sound in rooms. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 74, 1380-1391.
20. Kent, J.T., 1982. The Fisher-Bingham distribution on the sphere. J. R. Statist. Soc. B 44, 71-80.
21. Leong, P.H.W., Carlile, S., 1997. Methods for spherical data analysis and visualisation. J. Neurosci. Methods (submitted).
22. Makous, J., Middlebrooks, J.C., 1990. Two-dimensional sound localization by human listeners. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 2188-2200.
23. Middlebrooks, J.C., 1992. Narrow-band sound localization related to external ear acoustics. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 92, 2607-2624.
24. Oldfield, S.R., Parker, S.P.A., 1984a. Acuity of sound localization: a topography of auditory space I. Normal hearing conditions. Perception 13, 581-600.
25. Oldfield, S.R., Parker, S.P.A., 1984b. Acuity of sound localization: a topography of auditory space II: Pinna cues absent. Perception 13, 601-617.
26. Oldfield, S.R., Parker, S.P.A., 1986. Acuity of sound localization: a topography of auditory space. III Monaural hearing conditions. Perception 15, 67-81.
27. Perrett, S., Noble, W., 1995. Available response choices affect localization of sound. Percept. Psychophys. 57, 150-158.
28. Wightman, F.L., Kistler, D.J., 1989. Headphone simulation of free field listening. II: Psychophysical validation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 85, 868-878.
29. Carlile, S., Pettigrew, A.G., 1987. Distribution of frequency sensitivity in the superior colliculus of the guinea pig. Hear. Res. 31, 123-136.